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President's Address ILHS AGM Saturday September 5Th, 2020 An Cumann Irish Staire Lucht Labour Saothar History na hÉireann Society Museum & Archives Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland. President’s Address ILHS AGM Saturday September 5th, 2020. Colleagues it is seventeen months since we gathered in the Denham, and Shay Cody will be elected as President of Forsa-SIPTU offices in Roxborough Road, Limerick for the the Society. I wish them all well in their ongoing endeav- 2019 AGM and for events connected with the Centenary of ours on behalf of the society, at the same time work is the Limerick Soviet, Liam Cahill’s address on that subject continuing to progress in increasing the regional/gender/ and the presentation of copies of the Soviet’s money donat- youth involvement from Ulster: Connacht and Munster in ed via Barry Desmond and accepted by Mike McNamara. A the Society. well-attended event with faces one might not often see at a Saothar 45 was delivered during the lockdown our Dublin based AGM, it was good to see non ILHS members compliments to CRM Design & Print for delivering during turn out to listen to Liam’s thought provoking lecture the lockdown and thank you to Mary McAuliffe and which did the society proud on such a special occasion for Leann Lane the editors of this volume. Ed Penrose and Limerick labour folk and shortly thereafter Liam launched Francis Devine produced a pdf and hard copy of the 30th the Centenary edition of Forgotten Revolution-The Limer- anniversary newsletter of our premises at Beggars Bush. ick Soviet 1919. The committee approved a publication for late 2022 to Much has happened since then with word of the ‘new celebrate 50 years of the ILHS,-Labour & Class in Irish flu’ being registered by the WHO as a pandemic; the subse- History- Essays to Celebrate 50 years of the ILHS 1973- quent loss of life, the devastation of economies as well as 2022 and joint editors John Cunningham; Francis Devine the millions of people worldwide who are laid off; made and Sonja Tiernan have been agreed by the ILHS com- redundant and those who work in areas of our economies mittee. for employers who do not have sick leave schemes, poor or In the light of the author’s decision to have the Rosie no child-care systems and all the faults that have been Hackett SILH published elsewhere, a new SILH No 16 has highlighted worldwide of underfunded health and welfare been sourced emphasising solidarity between Irish and systems; prevarication by governments and ministers and UK trade unionists during the 1913 Dublin Lockout and the greed and price escalation of contractors and vendors the Miners’ Strike 1984-5 and the subject of SILH 17 supplying personal protective equipment, much of which is should be identified for publication for 2022-23. Mike not fit for purpose. Shuker and Francis Devine are finishing work on SILH 16 After Easter last year, the sub-committee on the pro- ‘To Make a Universe of Love, Not a Universe of posed 2020 European Conference of the ILHS’s work gath- th Hate’ –Leicestershire Labour and the Dublin Lock Out, ered pace and by March 5 , 2020 we were on the cusp of 1913-1914. Patricia King and Frances O’Grady (ICTU/ finalising the agenda for that conference when work BTUC) are contributing an introduction to the pamphlet. stopped. The work of the committee continued, and we The following events follow from discussions in May had members contributing to the ICTU conferences held in 2019, following last year’s AGM on Saothar/Publications/ Belfast, Cork, Galway and the DCTU Conference in Liberty Conference 2020 under the following headings: Saothar Hall. Many ILHS members were speakers at these events – the appointment of a General Editor, and a return to 3 and others attended as delegates and we had stalls at all editors one of whom should be a trade union based com- save the Cork event which to our chagrin was timetabled to th mittee member, work has begun on scoping guest editors compete with our Autumn conference on October 16 , de- for Saothar 50, seeking a sponsor for an online version of spite the fact that the date of the ILHS Conference was well an updated Saothar index, and seeing if the proceedings known. That event hosted on the Friday in Forsa HQ and of the coming international conference could be pub- on the Saturday in Beggars Bush dealt with 60 years of the lished as a special edition of Saothar. ICTU 1959-2019, with Patricia King giving the keynote speech and speakers including Patricia McKeown, Gerry Other Committee work Murphy, current President of Congress, Alison Millar, Anne Speed, Peter Bunting, Seamus Dooley, Eoin A decision was taken on fiscal prudence in spending Ronayne, John King and Peter Nolan on aspects of public for the next 12-18 months due to the financial charge and private sector employment in both jurisdictions. The on having to reprint Saothar 44 due to a major editori- Seamus Dooley-Peter Bunting aspect of the Conference al error. was quite candid and revelatory in relation to content. On Work to scope the supplier for the digital images of the the Friday evening ILHS member Dr Mike Mecham’s bio- ICA sample minute book to be completed (outstanding graphical book on William Walker was launched. since 2017) Work for the Autumn Conferences of 2019/2020 (both Committee Work completed) The committee met twice in February(delayed due to the Need to recruit new blood to the committee asap and General Election) and July and a lot of good work done as some contingency planning needed for the medium well as the co-option of three new members to the commit- term (being achieved) tee Micheal Mac Donncha; Betty Tyrrell Collard; Mary Someone to take on the role of liaison with the Trades Muldowney consequent on the resignations of James Cur- Councils (Pat Bolger accepted this role and himself ry, and Leah Dowdall. Two new committee members will and I met with the ICTU Trades Council Group in Jan- be elected at today’s AGM Bill McCamley and Donal uary 2020. Work needs to proceed on recruiting someone to take larly abroad. There are many new Irish academics who on the role of President of the Society from AGM 2020 have gone abroad to begin their careers and getting tenure (Completed in mid-2020) -let us stay in touch and invite them to be part of the ILHS diaspora and contribute to the debate. Work needs to be done on International membership At the AGM in 2014 were members of the Corish fam- which has dwindled and international contacts – Ed ily presenting papers from his estate to do with the Wex- and I have worked on the former with some success ford Lockout of 1911, also present were 3 Labour Party and in the last while Mike Mecham and Steve Coyle heavyweights John Horgan, Tony Brown, and Flor have taken over as ILHS contacts in England and Scot- O’Mahony -on the topic of ‘Remembering Frank Cluskey’ land respectively. Work is ongoing on securing a con- from which spawned the Umiskin Press book Cluskey the tact for North America via Pat Bolger. Conscience of Labour and afterwards a lecture in the ter- Finally, Fionnuala Richardson the Vice President took centenary of the Dublin City Council series -Lord Mayors of on the role of being the contact person for available Dublin: Frank Cluskey :A Man of Principle, subsequently accommodation for the now deferred 2020 Confer- re-edited at the Bray Trades Council. ence. In this regard it may be necessary to scale back In 2015 we saw the creation of Labour History News the expectation of financial support for the Conference edited by James Curry and Adrian Grant which was pub- given the ongoing layoffs and redundancies of trade lished till May 2018 when it was discontinued for two rea- union members during the pandemic. sons: the cost and the poor distribution record of the publi- cation, with significant number of copies not being distrib- Recently Dr Mike Mecham took on the position of repre- uted. The committee has since had two 4-page event-based senting the ILHS on the Executive Committee of the Soci- publications of the Corish event in Wexford (Nov 2018) ety for the Study of Labour History in England, an honour and the 30th anniversary of the opening of Beggars Bush for him and the society, Mike confers on this matter fre- (June 2020) sent out on pdfs with a limited hard copy print quently. run. In this regard can I ask members to advise the Secre- tary of their updated email address and contact details. Looking Back to 2014. Following conservation advice two ICA uniforms were When I agreed to take on the role of President of the Soci- brought to the UK by Ed Penrose for full conservation and ety for a second time, I advised Ed Penrose that I intend- returned in time for the 1916 centenary commemorations ed to do it totally differently to my previous term in office. in 2016. I took up my position following Brendan Byrne’s retire- 2016 saw a plethora of publications and events, fol- ment as President in June 2014 after many years of dis- lowing the President of Ireland’s address at the 2015 Au- tinguished service. I can say that I have thoroughly en- tumn Conference of the ILHS he returned on Easter Tues- joyed working with such committed committee members, day 29 March 2016 as part of the James Connolly and the ordinary ILHS members and others in the wider labour Irish Citizen Army State Commemoration.
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